Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Whores

I wouldn't really have a problem with legalized prostitution--I used to know someone who made the reasonable argument that it shouldn't be illegal to do for money what it's perfectly legal to do for free. If it were legal, would the stigma currently attached to being a whore remain?

I ask because--well let's be honest here, these women are whores. We can dance around the word, and we can pretend they're just "escorts" or "arm candy", but a reasonable person could make the assumption I'm making:

A new study out Monday by dating website Seeking Arrangements reports that UC Davis ranks 43rd in the nation for female students looking to “sugar daddies” to pay for college...

The average monthly payment to the girls is around $3,000. UC Davis students aren’t shocked by girls turning wealthy men for money.

Be honest.

According to further research, Cal-Berkeley tops California schools at #18. The top school is NYU.

Who would have predicted that subsidizing higher education would have resulted in women becoming prostitutes? In fact if not in name?

For libertarians this ought to be good news since it should add to the constituency opposed to the laws against prostitution and the additions will be educated women and possibly the men who have engaged their services.

It just illustrates the point. If you want to have sex with someone, you can. If you want to pay for someone's college education, you can. Heck, If you just want to give someone a boatload of money . . . you can. But -- link the two, even when it's mutually beneficial? That would be a crime.

If they want money for sex in order to pay for college, then they should file that income on their FAFSA in order to properly ascertain "their fair share" as allocated by the Federal government. Failure to do so is hiding income just like in a divorce and is illegal. In addition, if they contract for such services, then they are running a business and should have to pay the insurance costs themselves rather than expecting their respective universities to fork over the money as demanded by Obama's favorite female grad student.

Ellen K . . . you're right, technically ... but you can't expect them to report it if it's based on illegal activity. And, any person can give any other person up to i think 12.5k now a year as a 'gift', tax free ... so as long as they don't enumerate services - they could get around it anyway. One could make the same argument about a stay at home mom or dad . . .